Holmcroft: Skilled person not amenable to judicial review

On 24 February 2016, in R (Holmcroft Properties Limited) -v- KPMG LLP and others,the Divisional Court dismissed Holmcroft’s judicial review challenge to the skilled person’s role in a mis-selling redress scheme. The skilled person, KPMG, had approved Barclays’ rejection of Holmcroft’s claims for consequential losses it claimed to have suffered as a result of the mis-sale. The court found that the skilled person was not amenable to judicial review and that, in any event, it had acted fairly.